But there is another reason that we will not discover such a law. According to classical information theory, the amount of information present in a sequence is inversely proportional to the probability of the sequence occurring. Yet the regularities we refer to as laws describe highly deterministic or predictable relationships between antecedent conditions and subsequent events. Indeed, laws describe patterns in which the probability of each successive event (given the previous event) approaches 1 (i.e., 100 percent, the highest probability possible).
